This area is called the executive center and this executive center governs the
Speaker:behavior below and allows us the freedom of options to allow
Speaker:us to act with wisdom instead of just emotional reaction.
Speaker:This particular topic is why developing your executive center
Speaker:is so important in your life and why it matters in your daily life.
Speaker:And you may not be familiar with the term, the executive center,
Speaker:but let me just develop it.
Speaker:You've probably seen somewhere in your life,
Speaker:an image of a doctor taking a reflex hammer and hitting a knee where
Speaker:somebody's knees over another knee and causing the muscle to
Speaker:jerk and kick up in the air.
Speaker:And this is called a deep tendon reflex.
Speaker:It is what is called a monosynaptic reflex.
Speaker:A synapse is a junction between two nerves.
Speaker:And so when you hit the reflex hammer on the knee,
Speaker:the tendon is distended you might say,
Speaker:and as a result of it,
Speaker:it sends nerve reflexes into the spinal cord and it joins
Speaker:to a muscle, a nerve that goes to a muscle,
Speaker:so you have a sensory nerve and a motor nerve coming out, and one synapse,
Speaker:which is a junction between these nerves. And so when you hit that, it jerks,
Speaker:if you hit it just right, it jerks and the muscle jumps,
Speaker:and this is called a monosynaptic reflex. And it is all or none,
Speaker:it either fires or it doesn't fire, there's no gradation to it.
Speaker:And that's because of the most primitive part of our brain, you might say,
Speaker:or spinal cord or nerve system,
Speaker:these monosynaptic reflex mean there's no option on whether it
Speaker:fires or not. It just fires or doesn't fire. It's no, it's black or white.
Speaker:But as you go up into the spinal cord,
Speaker:you get what they call interneurons.
Speaker:There are three types of neurons in the body. There are sensory neurons,
Speaker:there's interneurons and motor neurons.
Speaker:Now there's special types of nerves that are going on into the gut,
Speaker:and there's special nerves that go into the heart, but generally speaking,
Speaker:they're either input responding or output nerves, sensory input,
Speaker:interneurons for decisions, processing, and motor nerves for output,
Speaker:to cause a muscle to change. But as you go in the spinal cord,
Speaker:the most simple reflex is a monosynaptic reflex,
Speaker:there's only one nerve going to another nerve.
Speaker:Then you have bi synaptic reflexes where you have a nerve,
Speaker:a synaptic junction, to a nerve, to a synapse junction to another nerve.
Speaker:And that's if somebody burns you, your hand jerks away.
Speaker:But the other hand also does it to balance it contralaterally to the other side,
Speaker:in order to keep yourself from falling over when you jerk away, it balances you.
Speaker:So that's a two synaptic reflex.
Speaker:If you go up into the spinal column with that same stimulus,
Speaker:if you hit that deep tendon really hard and it bruises,
Speaker:the nerve can travel not only to the muscle to make it jerk and also to the
Speaker:other side, to make it balanced,
Speaker:but also go up into the brain stem or up into the bottom of the skull
Speaker:you might say, the bottom of the brain, above the spinal cord,
Speaker:and cause the heart rate to increase or to cause us to feel heat
Speaker:temperature or something.
Speaker:And so now you have what is called a polysynaptic reflex.
Speaker:A polysynaptic reflex means you have a nerve, a nerve, a nerve, a nerve,
Speaker:a nerve, a nerve, and then finally a response.
Speaker:And the farther you go up in the brain,
Speaker:the more the number of interneurons between the sensory input and the motor
Speaker:output. So we start out like a reflex,
Speaker:but as we go up with all the more nerves we have,
Speaker:in a sense not just a reflex, we have a very complex reflex,
Speaker:and those nerves can be turned on or turned on, turned off,
Speaker:and they could be more refined in the response.
Speaker:It's like a dimmer switch instead of being all or none,
Speaker:it kind of can be halfway. And so the farther we go in the brain,
Speaker:the more we have a governance, more of a,
Speaker:you might say a dimmer switch that allows us to not just reflexively
Speaker:respond, but reflectively respond, to stop and think, well,
Speaker:how do I wanna respond? And so way up in the very front of the brain,
Speaker:the most advanced part of the brain, where the most amount of neurons are,
Speaker:where you might say the prefrontal cortex, the frontal part of the brain,
Speaker:this is called the executive center. Cause what the executive center does,
Speaker:it takes sensory input and it associates it with all types of
Speaker:experiences and then creates a motor output. And so there,
Speaker:we don't have just reflex, black or white, we have gray.
Speaker:And so let's just say that,
Speaker:let's say where somebody came and criticized us for instance,
Speaker:and if we had only one response, hit,
Speaker:then if we were in a situation where somebody basically said something to us
Speaker:that we didn't like, we would immediately punch 'em,
Speaker:and that's a primitive kind of response. But as we go up in the forebrain,
Speaker:the very advanced part of the brain,
Speaker:we could take that stimulus and we can think of hundreds or thousands of
Speaker:different experiences and scenarios in our head and then select that,
Speaker:you might say, and then respond differently, with a piece of wit,
Speaker:a comical response, a request for something,
Speaker:maybe a retaliative of response, you have a variety of them.
Speaker:So here's the principle,
Speaker:the more primitive we are in the brain or the individual
Speaker:neurons, the more black and white our thinking, we're kind of fundamental,
Speaker:we don't have many options and therefore we don't have freedom.
Speaker:We're like an automaton reacting,
Speaker:kinda like an animal if it sees predator or prey,
Speaker:it goes in survival and it runs after it or runs away from it,
Speaker:it doesn't have much gray area. It doesn't have a conversation.
Speaker:Doesn't take it out to tea, doesn't sing it to it.
Speaker:We don't have the things that human beings have.
Speaker:But as we go into the forebrain,
Speaker:all the way to the most advanced part of the brain,
Speaker:there are trillions or billions of options.
Speaker:And this is what sets us apart. And this forebrain,
Speaker:this executive center,
Speaker:this prefrontal cortex and some of the subcortical areas that are associated
Speaker:with it, allow us to have a variety of responses.
Speaker:Now what's interesting is in the brain,
Speaker:there are basically two systems of response.
Speaker:Two thinking systems. One is an emotional response for survival,
Speaker:that's like a reflex,
Speaker:a monosynaptic reflex where you just react without thinking.
Speaker:So you emotionally react as a survival response for prey or predator to run
Speaker:after, run away from it, like a monosynaptic reflex,
Speaker:but maybe a polysynaptic reflex. But we also have a systems 2 thinking,
Speaker:which is a little slower, takes time to process,
Speaker:you have to go through all these gyrations in the head.
Speaker:It's like the dimmer switch.
Speaker:And now what you do is you're now thinking in terms of,
Speaker:well how do I wanna respond?
Speaker:What would give me the most advantage over disadvantage in my response?
Speaker:What about the future application of this individual?
Speaker:How will I respond to them and their friends and their colleagues and how will
Speaker:it affect my business and how it affect my relationship and how will it affect
Speaker:my economics and how will affect my social standard?
Speaker:And now we've got all these associations from all the experiences we've learned
Speaker:through our life. All those can be associated with that stimulus.
Speaker:So I wanna make a statement here that it's not what happens to us that makes a
Speaker:difference in life, it's how we process it and how we perceive it.
Speaker:And the difference between a reception of a deep tendon reflex where we just
Speaker:respond without thinking and thinking without reacting
Speaker:is the difference in the advancement of our brain.
Speaker:So the executive center,
Speaker:the executive function allows us to inhibit those spontaneous
Speaker:reactions that we usually regret because we just, we reacted without thinking,
Speaker:and this allows us to govern ourselves. So the most advanced part of the brain,
Speaker:primarily the prefrontal cortex,
Speaker:there's other cortical and sub cortical areas that are involved,
Speaker:but mainly the prefontal cortex, this area is called the executive center.
Speaker:And this executive center governs the behavior below and allows us the freedom
Speaker:of options to allow us to act with wisdom,
Speaker:instead of just emotional reaction.
Speaker:We have in a sense emotional responses that are survival and we have thrival
Speaker:responses that allow us to accomplish great things.
Speaker:This advanced part of the brain,
Speaker:the executive part of the brain also allows us to take all the experiences that
Speaker:we've had in the past,
Speaker:take this new stimulus and think of all the possible scenarios of what could
Speaker:happen from it or how we could respond to it,
Speaker:and think out what is the most advantaged one and strategically plan that,
Speaker:all before we actually react. And so we may take milliseconds or seconds,
Speaker:three seconds maybe to even respond, but we now make a more graded response,
Speaker:more of a dimmer switch.
Speaker:And instead of having an emotional reaction where we're run by the external
Speaker:world, we're now run from within.
Speaker:So when we're in the survival mode and we're in the emotional reaction,
Speaker:the external world runs us because stimulus makes response.
Speaker:But when we're advanced part of the brain,
Speaker:we run us because we decide how we wanna respond.
Speaker:And that's the difference between emotional reaction
Speaker:and planning. One is reactive. One is proactive.
Speaker:One is reactive with emotions and one is proactive with inspiration potentially.
Speaker:Now you might say, well,
Speaker:how does that relate to our daily life and empowering our lives?
Speaker:Well in every area of our life,
Speaker:we're constantly being perturbed by our environment and challenged by our
Speaker:environment by different things.
Speaker:But we have a homeostatic mechanism in our brain to try to bring us back into
Speaker:balance, and the executive function, that's what it's trying to do,
Speaker:it's trying to bring us back to make a wise decision that's factoring in all the
Speaker:variables and all the associations we've made to make an active wisdom
Speaker:instead of an emotional reaction of, you know, and then we look back and go,
Speaker:well, I regret that. I mean,
Speaker:we've all been in a situation where we've been infatuated with somebody,
Speaker:and we're assuming consciously of the upsides and unaware of the downsides and
Speaker:impulsive reacted and then went, oh my God, it's a fatal attraction.
Speaker:And three to six months later, we go, woo, what were we getting ourselves into?
Speaker:We've also had things we resented and we thought somebody,
Speaker:our first impression is that somebody we didn't wanna be around them and they've
Speaker:turned out to be fantastic people, we didn't know at first.
Speaker:And so what we do is we have this subjective bias reaction first until we
Speaker:eventually see all the different variables and allow us to be more objective.
Speaker:The executive center allows us to not react, but act,
Speaker:allows us to assess things more balanced and be able to make a wise decision.
Speaker:It's interesting, Aristotle said that there were vices,
Speaker:which are excess and deficiency of perceptions, and then virtue,
Speaker:which is the golden mean, the mean between those polarities.
Speaker:And we had the virtue of wisdom and temperance and courage
Speaker:to be our true, authentic self when we live in our executive function,
Speaker:because it allows us to have way more associations.
Speaker:You've met people probably that are politically or religiously inclined.
Speaker:They are absolutists. This is bad and there's no good in it,
Speaker:or this is good and there's no bad in it. Very black and white, and they react.
Speaker:And they're basically in systems 1 thinking.
Speaker:And then you meet somebody that's more aware, more broadened,
Speaker:they see neither positive nor negative, instead of either positive or negative.
Speaker:And they're more of a gray and they have a relative view,
Speaker:they're more universal in mind and they have a more appreciative and loving and
Speaker:response that's thoughtful.
Speaker:And I believe that that's the difference of the executive function versus this
Speaker:primitive response below, this reflexes below. We have reflexes,
Speaker:or we have a reflection.
Speaker:We have either reflexes or in a sense reflection.
Speaker:The systems 2, the executive function is a reflective mind.
Speaker:It reflects, stops, thinks, anticipates, strategically manages things,
Speaker:strategically plans, anticipates,
Speaker:thinks out the pros and cons and then acts.
Speaker:And that's what gives us the difference between the animal and the human,
Speaker:or you might say the animal mind and the angelic mind.
Speaker:The angelic mind is we ever gracefully respond and think through and not let the
Speaker:world outside us impact us. I've seen,
Speaker:I teach a program called the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:The Breakthrough Experience has people come in there sometimes where they're
Speaker:highly infatuated with somebody and they can't control themselves,
Speaker:or highly resentful sometimes of people they just want to choke.
Speaker:And these are responses because of the ratios of perception.
Speaker:When you have ratios of perceptions that are black or white,
Speaker:highly subjectively biased, the primitive responses go off.
Speaker:When we have a more balanced view, the more executive function goes off.
Speaker:We're poised, we're present, we're more neutral. And when we're neutral,
Speaker:we're resilient and adaptable, and we have eustress instead of distress.
Speaker:But when we're black and white,
Speaker:if we're highly infatuated with something we fear it's loss,
Speaker:if we're highly resentful to something, we fear it's gain,
Speaker:so we can't control it, we're like a monosynaptic reflex,
Speaker:responding without even thinking.
Speaker:But if we see both sides and we see it neutrally, and it's gray,
Speaker:not black or white, we are able to stop, reflect and think.
Speaker:And that allows us to empower our life,
Speaker:because now the voice and the vision on the inside is louder than the opinions
Speaker:on the outside. The world on the inside, intrinsically is driving you.
Speaker:People that are driven intrinsically and spontaneously inspired, achieve more.
Speaker:They break through limitations in their life. You know,
Speaker:I've been teaching things about Breakthrough,
Speaker:in my Breakthrough Experience about values and the values,
Speaker:you have a hierarchy of values, and whatever's highest on your value,
Speaker:which is an intrinsic value, which is one that inspired from within,
Speaker:this is where you, whenever you're living in the highest value,
Speaker:your executive center gets blood glucose and oxygen and it starts to have more
Speaker:resilience, adaptability, it expands your awareness,
Speaker:you have a broader perspective, you don't react, you act,
Speaker:and you're more inspired by your life, and you feel more in a sense free,
Speaker:cuz there's all these options you have and you can make the decision
Speaker:accordingly. But when you're down and you're living in lower values,
Speaker:things that are lower in priority and not living by what's most meaningful to
Speaker:you, you're going into your amygdala, you're going into a reactive mode,
Speaker:you're like a reflex and you're now vulnerable and very volatile in this
Speaker:state. Now, any area of your life, as Warren Buffett says,
Speaker:until you can manage your emotions, don't expect to manage money.
Speaker:Robert Green says, until you can manage emotions, don't expect to be a leader.
Speaker:And in business, until you can manage your emotions, don't expect to be a great,
Speaker:you know, manager of people. And in relationships,
Speaker:highly volatile emotions usually cause all kinds of craziness in the
Speaker:relationship. So an individual that's in systems 2 thinking,
Speaker:which is maybe a little bit more slower processing,
Speaker:but more diverse in the response and is able to proact and love and
Speaker:appreciate,
Speaker:is way more profoundly empowered compared to an individual that's just an
Speaker:automaton reacting to the external environment like a reflex.
Speaker:So anytime you have a balanced mind, you go into the executive center.
Speaker:Anytime you have an imbalanced mind,
Speaker:you automatically go into the reacting center.
Speaker:You think before you react when it's balanced,
Speaker:you react before you think when it's imbalanced. Highly infatuated,
Speaker:you're going to react. Highly resentful, you're going to react.
Speaker:They're like a prey and predator,
Speaker:you seek it with impulse and avoid it with instinct.
Speaker:But when you're balanced and you see neither, neither positive nor negative,
Speaker:you don't have these impulses and instincts, you end up having intuition,
Speaker:which balances you, and inspiration,
Speaker:which takes you and do what you really love, you take the options.
Speaker:That's why I talk about the executive center and why it matters and why
Speaker:developing it is so important.
Speaker:So let's go through some of the constructs and some of the things you can do to
Speaker:empower your executive center. Number one,
Speaker:as I just mentioned is automatically living by priority.
Speaker:You have a hierarchy of values, set of priorities,
Speaker:things are most important to least important.
Speaker:Whenever you're doing most important things,
Speaker:you'll find out that you feel you're on top of the world.
Speaker:And whenever you're doing less important things,
Speaker:you feel the world's on top of you.
Speaker:We've all remembered a day where you had an agenda, you went after it,
Speaker:you knocked it out, you ticked off the boxes, you got everything done,
Speaker:you stayed on top of it through the day,
Speaker:at the end of the day you felt you were invigorated,
Speaker:it didn't feel distressful and you came home and you could handle the emotions
Speaker:or whatever happened that came home, anything that was thrown at you,
Speaker:you were adaptable to.
Speaker:You've always had a day where you felt like you got everything that outside
Speaker:world came upon you, opportunists, sales people, distractions,
Speaker:unexpected's, and you never got to priority,
Speaker:and you were a bear and you felt whoa, what a day? It was a futile day,
Speaker:a hell of a day,
Speaker:and you came home and now you're taking out your frustrations on the people you
Speaker:care about, that systems 2 thinking.
Speaker:So number one is to make sure that you live your life by priority.
Speaker:If you're not filling your day with the highest priority actions that inspire
Speaker:you, your day is gonna fill up with low priority distractions that don't.
Speaker:Low priority distractions are impulsive and instinctual reflexes,
Speaker:and high priority actions that are inspiring are actions that inspire you,
Speaker:that are directed by design and thought instead of just emotional reactions,
Speaker:reflexes. If all of a sudden you prioritize your life. Now, also,
Speaker:if you find out that if you eat sugar,
Speaker:sugar makes you go a little high and then it has low.
Speaker:It tends to accentuate low.
Speaker:Anytime you're doing something with concentrations of sugar,
Speaker:high concentrations, you're gonna end up with a high and low,
Speaker:which gonna put you down in your amygdala.
Speaker:Anytime you take any food substance to extreme, over eating, under eating,
Speaker:too much or too little of almost anything and not moderation and consistency and
Speaker:rhythm, you automatically create increasing volatility,
Speaker:which puts you in systems 1 thinking and makes you react.
Speaker:And then the external world runs your life.
Speaker:But if you moderate that and eat with a rhythm and consistent moderation,
Speaker:you tend to keep in the executive function and you tend to act and you tend to
Speaker:achieve more. You empower your life.
Speaker:The same thing with when it comes to overeating or undereating,
Speaker:if you overeat or undereat, fasting or binging,
Speaker:these cause the lower responses,
Speaker:cuz you get guilty when you overeat and then you end up having the licensing
Speaker:effect and you go through and create gyrations.
Speaker:But anytime you do something with a balanced ratio of perceptions with
Speaker:moderation, consistence and rhythm,
Speaker:you automatically help the executive center govern your life and you're in
Speaker:governance. And it's not the external world.
Speaker:It's not even your internal physiology.
Speaker:The external world that's going on is constantly perturbing you,
Speaker:it's how you ask the questions and how you perceive it that makes the
Speaker:difference. I have people in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:my signature program which I teach around the world,
Speaker:regularly come in with these emotional vicissitudes,
Speaker:these infatuation resentments. And if they come in there,
Speaker:that means that they've stacked up associations with
Speaker:all these negatives and run a story and justified their story and dramatized the
Speaker:story about how bad this thing was, they're victim of history,
Speaker:and as a result of it,
Speaker:they're going into the primitive part of the brain and they're gonna react.
Speaker:If they see the person, I gotta avoid this person, I gotta get outta here.
Speaker:Or they have somebody, I've gotta have them, they're infatuated.
Speaker:Anytime you're extremely infatuate or resentful the world around you is going to
Speaker:run you. But if you ask a simple set of questions, okay,
Speaker:what exactly didi they do? Where have I done that? How does it benefit me,
Speaker:if I'm resenting it, how's it serving me? And balance out the perceptions.
Speaker:The more you balance out those perceptions,
Speaker:the more you go into the executive function, the more you're empowered again,
Speaker:the more you're in command and the more you're running your life.
Speaker:And so the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you
Speaker:ask. If you ask questions that balance out the mind, you can move yourself
Speaker:to the executive center from this reacting center, the desire center,
Speaker:the amygdala they call it, and you can actually take command of your life.
Speaker:Now this occurs in all areas of your life.
Speaker:You're gonna meet people that you think are smarter than you or dumber than you,
Speaker:or more intelligent or less intelligent than you.
Speaker:When you put one on a pedestal, you'll minimize yourself.
Speaker:If you put them in the pit, you'll exaggerate yourself.
Speaker:Anytime you minimize or exaggerate yourself, you're not being yourself.
Speaker:And you're now in the primitive part of the brain reacting,
Speaker:cuz you're exaggerating,
Speaker:minimizing yourself instead of looking at the individual and realizing whatever
Speaker:you see in them is inside you and balancing the equation
Speaker:into authenticity instead of exaggerating or minimizing yourself.
Speaker:The moment you bring yourself into balance and bring yourself in balance with
Speaker:them, you realize they're just a human being with a set of values,
Speaker:you can appreciate them and you can act with them instead of react with
Speaker:avoiding or seek. And the same thing in business,
Speaker:you can meet people that are more business savvy or less business savvy or
Speaker:people that are doing things that support your values or challenge your values
Speaker:and employees, or customers that you admire or despise.
Speaker:Anytime you have these highly subjectively biased perceptions,
Speaker:the primitive one, desire center, the,
Speaker:the subcortical areas of the brain are gonna fire,
Speaker:you're going to react and then you're gonna possibly regret your life looking
Speaker:back at those reactions.
Speaker:But if all of a sudden you learn how to balance out your perceptions by asking
Speaker:quality questions, in the Breakthrough Experience I teach the Demartini Method,
Speaker:the Demartini Method is a series of questions that
Speaker:take you from this reacting state to this acting state,
Speaker:from this reflexive state to the reflective state,
Speaker:from the desiring amygdala into the executive prefrontal cortex.
Speaker:It's designed because what it does is it asks you methodically how to see things
Speaker:in a balanced way and asks you questions that your intuition is attempting to
Speaker:do to recenter yourself and repoise yourself instead of poison yourself.
Speaker:So it's never the world out there that's running your life,
Speaker:it's your perception of what's out there and you have command over your
Speaker:perceptions by becoming cognizant of the things you're unconscious of.
Speaker:And the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask
Speaker:and the questions you ask can make you cognizant of the unconscious.
Speaker:So if you're infatuated with somebody and you're unconscious of the downsides,
Speaker:if you ask a question, okay, what specific trait, action,
Speaker:or inaction do I perceive this individual displaying or demonstrating that I
Speaker:admire? Great. Where do I have that behavior? Own it,
Speaker:100%. Then what's the downside of those behaviors?
Speaker:Which you don't typically do that you're are unconscious of.
Speaker:Bring the downsides and the benefits equal, then it's now balanced.
Speaker:You just went from systems 1, reacting to avoid or seek, to now,
Speaker:I love this individual, let's have a dialogue.
Speaker:They're unique individual with a set of values.
Speaker:If I learn to communicate in their values, I can get nice.
Speaker:If I learn to challenge their values, I can get mean,
Speaker:I have in a sense command over my reality. That's a powered state.
Speaker:In fact, every area of life, your spiritual quest, your intellectual quest,
Speaker:your business quest, your financial quest, your family love and intimacy quest,
Speaker:your social leadership quest, your physical health and wellbeing quest,
Speaker:all of them can be seen imbalanced or balanced.
Speaker:And if you react and have an imbalanced perspective,
Speaker:the Demartini Method is there to ask questions,
Speaker:which I teach in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:how to ask the questions to re-center yourself and rebalance yourself to move
Speaker:from systems 1 to systems 2, from reflexes to reflective,
Speaker:and then you act not react.
Speaker:And then you're intrinsically driven by design and living by design instead of
Speaker:duty, reacting to the world around you.
Speaker:If you feel like the world is running your life,
Speaker:and you're basically a byproduct of the world around you,
Speaker:you're victim of history.
Speaker:But if you act and you realize that you can ask questions,
Speaker:balance out whatever's happening to you and change your actions.
Speaker:You have control of your perceptions, decisions and actions in life.
Speaker:You balance out your perceptions, you're in command of your actions.
Speaker:If you imbalance your perceptions, the world out there commands,
Speaker:causes reactions. It's not that.
Speaker:The people that don't know this and don't know how to empower their executive
Speaker:center and don't know how to ask the right questions to balance their mind,
Speaker:automatically feeling that the world's doing this to them.
Speaker:And they're blaming the world on the outside and giving credit to the world on
Speaker:the outside and it's all extrinsically driven with false attribution bias as the
Speaker:world outside and they feel that they're living in causality.
Speaker:In Buddhism they called it the karmic wheel,
Speaker:means that they're trapped in this world of reactions and causality that the
Speaker:world around them runs their life.
Speaker:And there's also a dharma wheel in the Buddhist construct where you are in
Speaker:command and you're living by a mission in life instead of these passionate
Speaker:reactions.
Speaker:And now you're on a mission and you're able to take whatever happens and balance
Speaker:it and use it to your greatest advantage. I'm interested in that.
Speaker:I'm interested in helping individuals master that.
Speaker:I'm firm believer that it's not what happens.
Speaker:William James said the greatest discovery of his generation is human beings can
Speaker:alter their lives by altering their perceptions and attitudes of mind.
Speaker:If I sit down and take something that you're highly resentful about,
Speaker:and I ask you the upsides to it and you go, well there are no upsides at first,
Speaker:it's all black, there's no white,
Speaker:and then I hold you accountable and look again and look again,
Speaker:you will discover that your subjective bias can be overridden by objective truth
Speaker:and allow you to see the upsides, cuz every event has two sides.
Speaker:And if you find the upsides and the upsides eventually equal the downsides,
Speaker:and once they're balanced, it's not an evil event, it's just an event.
Speaker:John Milton said, you can make a heaven out of a hell or a hell out of a heaven.
Speaker:It's based on the ratios of perceptions. And so when you learn how to do that,
Speaker:and you learn how to ask the questions by using the Demartini Method in the
Speaker:Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:you can empower your life in any one of those seven areas.
Speaker:There's no reason why you can't take command of your perceptions and run your
Speaker:life.
Speaker:Instead of having other things outside you constantly cause you to react like a
Speaker:reflex, like that hammer on the knee. And many people are just reactive.
Speaker:I'm amazed.
Speaker:They just go well so and so said this to me and I'm angry about that and it
Speaker:makes me feel bad and they're basically blaming something on the outside
Speaker:and thinking that's the cause of their life. And instead of actually,
Speaker:or giving credit, this person's gonna save me,
Speaker:this individual if I believe this this is gonna save me from all my problems.
Speaker:This outside causality,
Speaker:this extrinsically run victim savior mentality model
Speaker:is basically a disempowered state compared to taking command of your
Speaker:perceptions,
Speaker:decisions and actions by balancing out your perceptions and then taking actions,
Speaker:not reactions. The moment we balance it out, we go to the forebrain.
Speaker:The moment we imbalance it and get highly subjectively biased the more we go
Speaker:into the primitive reactions. That was there designed for capturing prey,
Speaker:we need to accelerate with adrenaline to capture the prey and run after it and
Speaker:to avoid the predator. So in survival mode,
Speaker:we have to have those subjective biases for survival,
Speaker:but 99% of our life is not in survival mode.
Speaker:We're not gonna get eaten by a prey and we're not gonna starve.
Speaker:So we need to learn to master the executive function.
Speaker:That's why I teach that in the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:That's why teach the Demartini Method. That's why I talk about values.
Speaker:Cause unless you live by highest priorities,
Speaker:that area of the brain doesn't even get blood.
Speaker:The automatically the reactive part of the brain gets blood.
Speaker:Anytime you're living by highest priorities, the highest values,
Speaker:you wake up that executive center,
Speaker:you're less likely to be emotionally reacting.
Speaker:You're more resilient and adaptable.
Speaker:You're more likely to have a longer time horizon instead of immediate
Speaker:gratification.
Speaker:You're not likely to be overeating and consuming and addictive behaviors and
Speaker:things which are compensations for not living by high priorities and awakening
Speaker:your executive function.
Speaker:The executive function is the key to empowering your life.
Speaker:The executive function's the key to expanding your awareness and potential.
Speaker:Your executive function is the thing that makes you different from the animals.
Speaker:The executive function is the one that allows you to be inspired instead of
Speaker:de-spired and to be a master of destiny, not a victim of history.
Speaker:So that's why I took the time to go over that today,
Speaker:because I really believe that that can give an advantage.
Speaker:That's why I tell people to go to the Breakthrough Experience and learn the
Speaker:Demartini Method.
Speaker:It's a tool with a thousand applications on empowering all areas of your life.
Speaker:I believe that we're here to master our life.
Speaker:I really believe that we're here to empower our life.
Speaker:And any area of our life we don't empower, other people overpower us,
Speaker:because they're gonna run us.
Speaker:So if we don't take command and balance our perceptions and learn how to have
Speaker:moderation, consistency, and rhythm of perception,
Speaker:we're automatically gonna have the outside world run us.
Speaker:And nobody in the outside world is dedicated to our fulfillment in life.
Speaker:So if we're not balancing it and they're doing whatever helps them fulfill their
Speaker:values, we're gonna be a byproduct,
Speaker:an automaton reacting to all these misperceptions.
Speaker:So I'm a firm believer in taking the time to do it. That's why I basically said,
Speaker:if you don't empower yourself in intellectual, you'll
Speaker:If you don't empower yourself in business, you'll be told what to do.
Speaker:If you don't empower yourself in finances, you'll be told what you're worth.
Speaker:If you don't empower yourself in relationships,
Speaker:you'll be honey do things all over the yard and house.
Speaker:If you don't empower yourself socially,
Speaker:you'll be told propaganda and misinformation.
Speaker:If you don't empower yourself physically,
Speaker:you'll be told what drugs to take and organs to remove.
Speaker:And if you don't empower yourself spiritually,
Speaker:you'll be told some dogma that's maybe antiquated, that's irrational,
Speaker:that's anthropomorphic. But if you actually empower those areas,
Speaker:you take command and you end up in the driver's seat.
Speaker:And then you realize whatever is out there you have within you.
Speaker:Whatever's out there is neutral until you choose with your subjective bias to
Speaker:make it something of a heaven or hell.
Speaker:And having that position empowering your life is the path to power.
Speaker:And that's why I take the time to do that in the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:And I wanna share with you something right now,
Speaker:I have this new seminar called the Path to Power and it's increasing your mental
Speaker:mastery and for your greatest mastery in empowering your life.
Speaker:And the reason I mentioned that is because I want to take off where I just left
Speaker:right now and take over with this little presentation, this new seminar,
Speaker:I want to take what I just said and develop it and show you how to actually do
Speaker:that. And as a result of that,
Speaker:I'm gonna show you the mechanisms and the pathways and the questions,
Speaker:the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask,
Speaker:how to ask questions to liberate yourself from those little reflexes that you
Speaker:don't have control over, to having in a sense actions that you're in command on.
Speaker:You can live by design or you can live by duty.
Speaker:You can live with foresight or you can live by hindsight.
Speaker:Hindsight is trial and error, it's most inefficient,
Speaker:but if you live by foresight and you learn how to master your perceptions,
Speaker:decisions and actions, you can take command of your life and live by design,
Speaker:not duty. Ontological, not deontological.
Speaker:And be inspired by your life spontaneously by living by what's valuable and be
Speaker:on top of the world instead of on the bottom of it,
Speaker:where the world's on top of you. So I just wanted to share that.
Speaker:Please take advantage of this Path to Power presentation. If you like,
Speaker:what I just said today, this is definitely gonna take it to the next level.
Speaker:And I'm absolutely certain you wanna learn the Demartini Method at the
Speaker:Breakthrough Experience. Find a way of getting that method. That is a,
Speaker:it's a gold mine.
Speaker:It's a tool with a thousand uses and you don't have to be a victim of your
Speaker:history anymore, you can be a master of your destiny.
Speaker:So this is my weekly webinar for this week.
Speaker:And I just wanted to share that insight. So just decide.
Speaker:Do you want to be a reflex or do you wanna be a reflective individual?
Speaker:Reflective awareness is the highest level you can have. It's the path to power.
Speaker:So I'll see you in this the path to power or at the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:Thank you for joining me today.
Speaker:Please take advantage of this upcoming webinar that I'll do.
Speaker:And until next week, I'll see you next week. Thank you.